The Spirit of Christ
Today’s Focus: Defining the Son
Scripture: Hebrews 1:1-3
Greetings Kingdom Citizens
Let’s get right to the scripture because this scripture alone frames the whole discussion for this message.
Hebrews 1:1-3: God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom He (Father) hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also He (Jesus Christ) made the worlds; Who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Now it is clear that the in various and past times God spoke to the fathers through the prophets. Now we know that this is referring the age of time before the day of the Lord Jesus. Now in the last days hath spoken to us by His Son. Now this phrase, His Son is very unique. I went back and looked at the Greek text at that particular phrase and noticed that the word “his” was not originally there. Hence the scripture in the original Greek text would read: “Hath in these last days spoken unto us by Son.” Now we know Son is the Spirit of Christ. Now we know this is true because do we remember when Jesus was on Earth and took three of His disciples up to the mount and Jesus was transfigured? Remember there was Moses, Elijah and Jesus there with the three disciples and Peter wanted to build three tabernacles (houses), one for each of them and then a cloud came over and a voice came out of the cloud. The Voice of the Father said this is my Beloved Son, Hear ye Him! Now we know that Moses represented the Law. Elijah represented the prophets. Jesus represented the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets and this is why God wanted the disciples to shift their thinking to listening to the Son in these days. The Spirit of Christ is the law and the prophetic.
Hebrews 1:2 goes on to say that the Son has been appointed heir of all things. Who appointed Christ to be the heir? The Father. Heirs have an inheritance. So the sons have an inheritance from the Father and the mediator of that inheritance is Christ. Christ understands how to distribute the inheritance amongst the sons for the Will of the Father to be fulfilled in the Earth.
Son is the identity that produces words or sounds of the mature Christ that gives definition to the image, character and nature of the Father. This is why Hebrews 1:3 says that the Son is in the brightness or radiance of His (Father’s) glory and the express image of His person. Things are upheld by the word of His power. So we carrying the image of Son are to be the radiance of the Father’s glory in the earth. Remember a radiator is the source and the heat from the radiator is thrown out into the atmosphere. We are the place in which the Father’s glory radiates from. His glory comes from within us to draw men and women unto Him.
Now to get to this point requires maturation in the Spirit. In the next message we will look at religious culture vs the culture of Son and show you how maturity can be affected depending upon the culture you live under.
Peace, Love and Grace from the Father,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
